Only the fourth direct elevation to the Supreme Court in five decades, Justice Santosh Hegde was the Advocate General of Karnataka, an Additional Solicitor General as well as a Solicitor General. Post-retirement, he was appointed the Lokayukta for Karnatka.

In this interview with Bar & Bench, he talks about his initial years, his time as the law officer, decision to join the Bench, the collegium system and the recent revelations made by Justice Katju.

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Thank you – the interview of perhaps one of the finest judges of India is very interesting. However, in my view the abolition of the collegium system is perhaps the best gift a Government can offer its citizens on the eve of Independence Day.

Sri Hegde is always known to be a rational thinker. I have always admired him. He comes from a coastal spirit worshiping community, a community which he had referred in a preface to a book “which will never perish”. He is true.